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R&D investment, productivity and rates of return: A meta-analysis of the evidence on OECD firms and industries
Ugur, Mehmet; Guidi, Francesco; Solomon, Edna; Trushin, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly … to meta-analyse the research findings based on OECD firm and industry data, with a view to establish where the balance of … primary studies, we report that the average effect of R&D capital on productivity and the average rate of return on R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108956
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Knowledge Management through the Lens of Innovation and Labour Productivity in a Knowledge Based Economy
Constantinescu, Madalina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
KM upon the innovation and labour productivity within the organization, and how KM affects the firm’s innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619825
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Determinants of capital structure in Irish SMEs
Mac an Bhaird, Ciaran; Lucey, Brian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents an empirical examination of firm characteristic determinants of the capital structure of a sample … universal effect of information asymmetries. Firms overcome the lack of adequate collateralizable firm assets in two ways; by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184582
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Efficiency of financial micro intermediation in the WAEMU countries: A stochastic frontier production analysis.
BABATOUNDE, Latoundji Alain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper investigates the efficacy and technical efficiency of financial micro intermediation in the productive process of the WAEMU economies over the period 2002-2007 using a stochastic frontier production model with technical inefficiency effects. Four specific variables of the financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294942
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Production Efficiency versus Ownership: The Case of China
Shiu, Alice; Zelenyuk, Valentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this study, we explore the pattern of efficiency among enterprises in China’s 29 provinces across different ownership types in heavy and light industries and across different regions (coastal, central and western). We do so by performing a bootstrap-based analysis of group efficiencies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534292
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Microeconomics of Knowledge: African Case
Manuel, Eduardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Since the process of globalization era, we can always lived in economics of knowledge. The cicle of economics founded on knowledge are compost by three components: the investment in knowledge; the production and the diffusion of information technology and communication (ITC) and the institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789511
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Strategic Decision-Making: Adoption of Agricultural Technologies and Risk in a Peasant Economy
Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Descriptive and logit analysis were employed to investigate the impact of social, economic and technical factors on decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies in the Ada and Selale districts of Ethiopia. Peasants follow sequential adoption of technologies. In both study areas, priority is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619927
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Determinantes de la eficiencia técnica en las actividades I+DT de los Centros Tecnológicos españoles
Núñez-Sánchez, Ramón; Modrego-Rico, Aurelia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
One of the most important objectives of innovation policy in most advanced industrial nations is the creation of infrastructure to support innovation, facilitating the transfer of technological knowledge to companies to enable them to acquire the tools more useful and effective to improve their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111685
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The Determinants of Corporate Growth
Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490086
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Global Competitiveness in Pharmaceuticals: A European Perspective
Gambardella, Alfonso; Orsenigo, Luigi; Pammolli, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The report examines the competitive position of the European pharmaceutical companies and industries, and compares them with the pharmaceutical companies and industries in other parts of the world, particularly the US. Over the last two decades, the industry has experienced some important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034968